The Holy Grail in the Cathedral of Valencia, Spain

Healthy scpeticism is expected, but this seems to be the real deal.

Your
quest for the Holy Grail is complete once you land in Valencia.

It is inevitable that such a seemengly bold claim will evoke a cynical
grin from most people who hear of the Holy Grail kept in the Valencia
Cathedral. However, and contrary to how it may seem, such scepticism is
an uninformed reaction, rather than otherwise.

It is common knowledge that if you collect all the nails with which Jesus
was cruxified, it turns out that the poor guy had a few hundred nails
in Him. And you could build a house from all the wood that is claimed
to be part of His cross. However, it is just not like that with the Cup
that can be much more scientifically analysed and cross-examined with
various historical records and references. As a result, every single claim
in the world have been dispelled. Apart from that of the Valencia Cathedral.
On the contrary - historians all over the world point all their evidence
to this item as being the authentic Cup used in the Last Supper.

Hollywood has, as usual, impregnated the public with a pseudo-historical
moment of truth. Indiana Jones speculates that the Cup was wooden since
Jesus was a carpenter. Well, shoe-makers don't drink from leather cups
and blacksmiths don't make their own steel mugs. While it would be absurd
to see a golden or platinum cup used by Jesus, it is also a bit silly
to expect Him to have found time in His very busy schedule to make all
kinds of cutlery and domestic items for His following, rather than just
buy one on the market or have one donated. Porous wooden cups, impractical
and forbidden for the Jewish Passover, are unlikely to have been used
by Him.

In fact, the Cup is made of agate stone - a popular material for drink
vessels in those times. It is a homogenous piece cut out entirely from
a lare chunk of agate, 9 cm in diameter. Naturally, decorations of gold
and pearls were added to the supporting structure over the centuries.

The Holy Grail is believed to had been left in the house where the Last
Supper took place - a house belonging to the family of St Mark the Evangelists,
who later took it to Rome when he went to serve as an interpreter for
St Peter. Passed on within the church and used as Papal Chalice, the relic
was shipped out of Rome in 3rd century by St Lawrence, in anticipation
of a persecution. It was taken out of Rome in the hands of a Spanish soldier
to Huesca, Spain. During the Muslim occupation of the Iberic peninsula,
the Grail went into hiding and later re-emerged in various Spanish monasteries
and cathedrals. The Kings of Spain looked after it, on occasions taking
it into their treasuries or palaces, until it was finally presented to
the Valencia Cathedral in XV century, where it remained ever since. It
briefly left the Cathedral only twice, both times during the 1930s Civil
War, for fears of plunder.

To be totally fair, the Cup in the Antioch Cathedral also passes tests
on authenticity. However, it is way too large to be passed around as a
cup. Records refer to two cups being used in the Last Supper - one as
a communal tank for wine and the other as a cup to drink from.